Description

Adobe Commerce is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access to sensitive resources. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.

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  "score": "9.1",
  "pubDate": "2026-08-11T18:18:21.610Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-08-11T18:18:21.610Z",
  "executiveSummary": "Adobe Commerce is affected by an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability that poses significant risk to system security and data integrity. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated or low-privileged remote attacker to execute privilege escalation, granting unauthorized access to sensitive resources and administrative functionalities within the affected application.\nThe root cause stems from improper validation of authorization checks during request processing, enabling attackers to bypass intended security boundaries. Exploitation requires no user interaction, significantly lowering the attack complexity and increasing the likelihood of automated exploitation attempts in the wild.\nThe risk implications of this security flaw are severe, as successful exploitation could lead to full administrative compromise, unauthorized data exfiltration, modification of critical system settings, and potential execution of further malicious activities within the underlying infrastructure.\nOrganizations utilizing vulnerable instances of Adobe Commerce must prioritize remediation efforts by applying official vendor patches as soon as they become available to neutralize the threat and prevent unauthorized privilege escalation.",
  "technicalDetails": "The vulnerability resides within the authorization enforcement mechanism of Adobe Commerce, specifically concerning how access controls are validated for incoming requests targeting sensitive resources.\nRoot Cause: The application fails to properly verify whether a requesting user or session possesses the requisite permissions or roles before granting access to privileged application endpoints. This flaw in the access control logic allows unauthorized actors to bypass security gates that normally restrict access to high-privilege operations.\nExploitation Method and Attack Flow: An attacker initiates the exploitation process by crafting malicious HTTP requests directed at specific sensitive endpoints or functions within Adobe Commerce. Because the application insufficiently validates authorization parameters, the request is processed successfully despite the lack of appropriate user privileges. The step-by-step attack flow involves identifying target endpoints lacking rigorous access control enforcement, formulating a request designed to interact with these privileged resources, and transmitting the payload across the network without requiring prior authentication or user interaction.\nAuthentication and Privilege Requirements: Exploitation does not mandate user interaction and can typically be performed remotely. Depending on the specific endpoint implementation, the attack may be executed by completely unauthenticated external entities or low-privileged users seeking to elevate their access level.\nNetwork Exposure: The vulnerability is exploitable remotely over the network, typically via standard HTTP or HTTPS protocols exposed by the web application front-end.\nPost-Exploitation Impact: Upon successful privilege escalation, an attacker gains unauthorized access to sensitive resources, internal functionalities, and administrative controls. This elevated access enables the compromise of user data, manipulation of e-commerce operations, injection of malicious persistence mechanisms, and potential lateral movement within the hosting environment."
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